snooty

Your first exposure to the person you would become was at a snooty British school while rowing crew.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026

DNA is a snooty aristocrat, never stooping to engage in day-to-day tasks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025

The city is not as snooty and pretentious as San Francisco.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2024

The Oscars will never be the place for snooty cinephiles like myself to exercise our theories and pet squabbles.

From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2024

If folks saw her perched high and mighty beside him in the back seat of a shiny motorcar, they’d call her snooty, or grave-snatcher.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

The Guardian's Hephzibah Anderson said Keyes' book would win her something "long overdue in snootier literary quarters: respect".

From BBC ● May 26, 2024

Versions of these knockoffs are still stocked in drugstores although snootier noses can tell the real deal from an Imposter and may gag at its very mention.

From Salon ● May 7, 2021

Martha had lived in Madrona for decades, by the end of which, it wasn’t the same — not as mixed in terms of race, overall snootier, she said with regret.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 10, 2019

"A Permanent Image" is that species of playwriting frowned upon by the snootier factions of the avant-garde — the domestic drama.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2015

“Yes, and she’s even snootier than those boys across the street. And their parents. She’s the worst!”

From "Pride" by Ibi Zoboi

Heard about that fresh new wave of horror dominating the box office and charming even the snootiest of critics?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

Eliot, newest, biggest, "snootiest" of the Houses, draws the same type of youth as Dunster, but is cut up into social cliques.

From Time Magazine Archive

I told Mom she was the snootiest squatter I’d ever met, and that made her laugh.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls